Evolution

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Theory of Acquired Characteristics describing the way organisms change to suit their environment and pass these changes directly to their offspring

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Jean B. Lamarck

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Wrote “Origin of Species which described his ideas on evolution and natural selection

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Charles Darwin

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Came up with the idea of natural selection to explain evolution, joint published with Darwin

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Alfred Wallace

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A German scientist who proposed the theory of the continental drift

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Alfred Wegener

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The process by which organisms better suited to their environment survive and reproduce

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Natural selection

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A change in environment or circumstances that favours one form of organism or species over another

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Selection pressure

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Form of reproductive isolation in which two populations reproduce at different times

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Temporal isolation

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Form of reproductive isolation in which two populations have different courtship and mating behaviours

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Behavioural isolation

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When the members of two populations cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring

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Reproductive isolation

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Result of reproductive isolation; leads to speciation

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Restricted gene flow

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Populations produce more offspring than the environment can support; leads to competition

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Overproduction of offspring

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The formation of new species.

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Speciation

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Differences between individuals of the same species

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Variation

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Inherited characteristics that increases an organism’s chance of survival in a particular environment

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Adaptation

Question 15

Selective breeding of plants and animals by humans to promote the occurrence of desirable traits in offspring

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Artificial selection